Furnish

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Furnish \Fur"nish\ (f[^u]r"n[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Furnished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Furnishing}.] [OF. furnir,
     fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir,
     furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to
     further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See {Frame}, v. t.,
     and {-ish}.]


     1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate;
        to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as,
        to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with
        arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind
        with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles;
        to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
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              That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly
              furnished
              unto all good works.                  --2 Tim. iii.
                                                    17,
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     2. To offer for use; to provide (something); to give
        (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry:
        to furnish arms for defense.
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              Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering
              unto that number.                     --Is. lxv. 11.
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              His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs
              that he was not a man of strong sense. --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Furnish \Fur"nish\, n.
     That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
     [Obs.] --Greene.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  furnish
       v 1: provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an
            electrical heater" [syn: {supply}, {provide}, {render}]
       2: provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in
          the Biedermeyer style"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "furnish":
     accommodate, accommodate with, accouter, adapt, adjust, afford,
     apparel, appoint, arm, array, attune, bear, bear fruit,
     bring forth, capacitate, clothe, condition, contribute, decorate,
     deliver, dispense, donate, dower, dress, enable, endow, endue,
     equip, favor with, feed, fill, fill up, find, fit, fit out, fit up,
     fructify, fruit, fund, gear, give, hand, hand over, heap upon,
     heel, indulge with, invest, keep, lavish upon, maintain,
     make available, make provision for, man, mount, munition, outfit,
     pour on, prepare, present, produce, provide, provide for,
     provision, put in trim, put in tune, qualify, recruit, replenish,
     rig, rig out, rig up, shower down upon, staff, stock, stock up,
     store, subsidize, suit, supply, support, transfer, tune, turn out,
     turn over, yield